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Conjunction Junction
Schoolhouse Rock still functions at 25
McCormick Talks
UW's President goes one-on-one with the Commons
still stoned
Rolling Stones show they still have it in IMAX concert film
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." — NapoUon
The Student Nfjpspaper
OF THE
UNI\ER.Smf OF
W.VSHINGTON BoTHEU.
VOH'MF 2 ISSIF 11
JANIARY 21 199"
News Briefs
Study abroad in Thailand uw Tacoma has arranged a two week class In Thailand, including a guided tour of the country. The class is open to UW Bothell students. The 10 credit course. Comparative Organizational Perspectives, will be offered Summer Quarter. The course was developed in coop¬ eration with the Business Admin¬ istration program at UW Tacoma and the Pacific Rim Center at the University of Washington Seattle. The cost of the trip is $3,200 and includes round-thp airfare, lodging and food, as well as admission to most of the histori¬ cal and cultural sites that will be visited.
Students interested in going should contact the UW Tacoma Business Administration program, or call one of the lead professors for the course before January 27: '^andt (206) 552-5630 or Tracy Thompson (206) 552-5636.
Business program diroctor to meet witlt students Dr, Stan Slater, the director of the University of Washington Bothell Business program, will be meeting with students on Wednesday, January 29, from 5:00 to 5:45 PM, in room 174. Slater wants to explain his plans for the future of the Business program, as well as
Dr. Stanley Slater
address any questions or concerns students have regard¬ ing the business program. Slater is new to the Business program this year, succeeded Ken Walters as the Business department director. Coffee will be provided at the meeting.
Student Government holds first meeting of quarter The four new mem¬ bers of the ASUWB board. Representatives Alysa Rees. Karmen Kam. Patty Hill, and Molly Clark joined Treasurer May Yuen. Vice President Jim Hidde, and President Donna Zeck. for the first student government meeting of Winter Quarter Much of the time was spent sf>owing the new tx)ard members the ropes
Tf>e tx>ard voted to purcfmse a door with a window for tf)e student govemnr>ent offk». Tfie board alkx:ated $600 for tt>e purchase and installation of tt>e door.
WHAT'S
A GUY
GOT TO
DO TO
GET
ELEaED
AROUND
ANVWAir?
photo by Richard Huffman
No chance Francis Lee and Mack Carter, along with Mathew Perry (not pictured) are the latest male students to lose an ASUWB election to female candidates. No male student who has run against a female student in the past two years has been elected to UW Bothell's student government.
¦ In the past two years there have been three ASUWB elections where students ran for student govemment office. In ten different races women competed against men. Women won all ten of those races.
Richiard Huttman Commons Editor
Carol Marston Commons Reporter
Late last month the results for the mid-year ASUWB representative election came in: Karmen Kam, Alysa Rees, Patty Hill, and Molly Clark were all chosen over Francis Lee, Mack Carter and Mathew Perry. All of the candidates names ap¬ peared on the ballot together and the top four vote-getters, all women, were selected. This isn't the first time that female candidates have defeated male candidates in an ASUWB race.
In fact, over the last two years male candidates h.ne never defeated female candidates. In the three student government elections since the ratifica¬ tion of the .^SUWB Constitution (which created the current student government structure) there have been ten races where at least one man ran against at least one women. The scorecard? Women won all ten of these races. Are the stu¬ dents of UW Bothell, which has a 70% female student population, making their voting decisions based purely on gender? Perhaps, but the real an¬ swer may not be so cut and dried.
Bothell students are obviously not voting ran¬ domly. Having ten women win in ten individual races is next to impossible, says Nick Maxwell, the psychologist-professor in the Liberal Studies Program."It will happen [only] about once per 1,000 sets of 10 races," says Maxwell, "so people arc probably not voting randomly."
In an ideal election, candidates are elected based on the voter's knowledge of the candidates record, background, and relative merit. These may have been the major deciding factors in each of the ten .ASL'WB races where women defeated men. But could this have happened ten times out of ten? Logic would indicate that at least once a male candidate's relative merits would have outweighed his female opponent s. But if the voters are not fully informed about each candidate's qualifica¬ tions, then it is p>ossiblc that they voters fell back on gender as a deciding factor. "It is certainly within the realm of possibility that gender had an effect," said ASLWB President Donna Zeck of the most recent election results, "1 would be fool¬ ish to say that it couldn't have had an effect."
A closer examination of the last three ASUWB elections shows that in the first two elections,
voters had many opportunities to become fully ac¬ quainted with each candidates qualifications. But in last month's election there was a decided infor¬ mation vacuum about each candidate.
UW Bothell's first official student government was put in place for the 1993-1994 school year. The government operated without a constitution, and spent much of the year formulating one. We could not track down the official results from the election that put this student government in of¬ fice. The UW Bothell Student Newsletter, published by ASUWB in the spring of 1995, indicated that there were six officers, and that four were men and two were women. We could not determine what circumstances put each candidate into office, whether they had defeated men or women, some combination thereof or ran unopposed.
That .Spring Quarter a student constitution was put up for approval by the students of UW Both¬ ell. The constitution stipulated that ASUWB would have seven elected officer positions: a president, vice-president, and treasurer, each serving one-year terms, and four student representatives, who each serve six-month terms.
On the ballot with the new constitution were nine candidates running for the elected offices that the new constitution would create. There were only four candidates who applied to run for the ASUWB representative positions, so the student government that was in place at the time decided to appoint them to the representative positions, rather than put them on the ballot unopposed.
Three candidates ran for president: Kathleen Parrish, Greg Headley, and Andrew Wahl. Parrish won. Three candidates also ran for vice president: Kevin Moe, Ken Smith, and Donna Zeck. Cur¬ rent ASUWB President 2^ck won. Three candi¬ dates, all female, ran for treasurer: Judy Harris, Melissa Meyer, and Angela Kuhlman, with Kuhl- man winning.
The mid-year ASUWB representative election the following December was cancelled because of a lack of candidates; as before, four applicants were appointed to their positions.
Last May. an almost full slate of candidates ran for the seven ASUWB offices. In three of the races there were male candidates running against female candidates. Donna Zeck defeated Aaron Chomjak for president. May Yuen defeated J. Christopher Haugen for treasurer, and Lore Christensen de¬ feated Randy Belieu for representative position Number One (Belieu ran as a write-in candidate, so his name did not actually appear on the ballot). For vice president, Jim Hidde defeated Chris Townsend; Hidde is the only current male mem¬ ber of the ASUWB governing board.
For last month's mid-year representative elec¬ tion, the ASUWB governing board decided to not
place on the ballot specific representative posi¬ tions, as it had done in the previous election. Karmen Kam, Alysa Rees, Patty Hill, and Molly Clark were the top four vote-getters, over Fran¬ cis Lee, Mack Carter and Mathew Perry. The vote was quite close, with Kam getting 157 votes. Hill getting 132, Clark getting 114, Rees getting 109, Lee barely losing with 108 votes. Carter not far behind with 106 votes, and Perry receiving 85.
It is now clear that last month's election di¬ rectly violated the ASUWB Constitution with the "top-four candidates" structure. Article II, Sec¬ tion C, Line 4 of the ASUWB Constitution reads, in part, "[Representative] Candidates shall file for one of four separate positions, and voters shall cast one vote for each position."
"We should have had specific positions that each candidate was running for," explains Mack Carter, unaware that the constitution actually requires it. If there had been specific positions each candidate were running for, rwo males could have run against each other, thus ensuring a male victory in at least one race.
But the major factor in the last election, be¬ lieve Charter and Francis Lee, was the lack of voter knowledge about each candidate's qualifications. "It seems that they [they voters] would have natu¬ rally voted for the candidates with the most ex¬ perienced backgrounds," says Carter, who served as an appointed ASUWB representative prior to the election. "But that didn't seem lo happen here."
"What was lacking," explains Lee, who also had extensive student government experience, with his work on the ASUWB, constitution com¬ mittee, "was a way of making known a candidate's experience, talent, knowledge, or lack thereof, so the student can make an informed choice."
According to Lee, past election practices em¬ ployed by the ASUWB would have helped. "It seems we don't have to reinvent the wheel here," says Lee "In previous elections ASUWB has al¬ ready utilized other creative approaches of in¬ forming the people."
In the spring 1995 election two candidates fo¬ rums were held in the the Commons, and the election was covered by ASUWB's newsletter. A four-page voter's guide was also distributed, con¬ taining position statements by all of the candi¬ dates. The second election also had rwo voter's forums, along with a four-page voter's pamphlet. The L^Bothell Commons produced its own in¬ dependent voter's guide. Both elections were marked by extensive informational campaigning, with the halls of UW Bothell covered with cam¬ paign posters.
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Conjunction Junction
Schoolhouse Rock still functions at 25
McCormick Talks
UW's President goes one-on-one with the Commons
still stoned
Rolling Stones show they still have it in IMAX concert film
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." — NapoUon
The Student Nfjpspaper
OF THE
UNI\ER.Smf OF
W.VSHINGTON BoTHEU.
VOH'MF 2 ISSIF 11
JANIARY 21 199"
News Briefs
Study abroad in Thailand uw Tacoma has arranged a two week class In Thailand, including a guided tour of the country. The class is open to UW Bothell students. The 10 credit course. Comparative Organizational Perspectives, will be offered Summer Quarter. The course was developed in coop¬ eration with the Business Admin¬ istration program at UW Tacoma and the Pacific Rim Center at the University of Washington Seattle. The cost of the trip is $3,200 and includes round-thp airfare, lodging and food, as well as admission to most of the histori¬ cal and cultural sites that will be visited.
Students interested in going should contact the UW Tacoma Business Administration program, or call one of the lead professors for the course before January 27: '^andt (206) 552-5630 or Tracy Thompson (206) 552-5636.
Business program diroctor to meet witlt students Dr, Stan Slater, the director of the University of Washington Bothell Business program, will be meeting with students on Wednesday, January 29, from 5:00 to 5:45 PM, in room 174. Slater wants to explain his plans for the future of the Business program, as well as
Dr. Stanley Slater
address any questions or concerns students have regard¬ ing the business program. Slater is new to the Business program this year, succeeded Ken Walters as the Business department director. Coffee will be provided at the meeting.
Student Government holds first meeting of quarter The four new mem¬ bers of the ASUWB board. Representatives Alysa Rees. Karmen Kam. Patty Hill, and Molly Clark joined Treasurer May Yuen. Vice President Jim Hidde, and President Donna Zeck. for the first student government meeting of Winter Quarter Much of the time was spent sf>owing the new tx)ard members the ropes
Tf>e tx>ard voted to purcfmse a door with a window for tf)e student govemnr>ent offk». Tfie board alkx:ated $600 for tt>e purchase and installation of tt>e door.
WHAT'S
A GUY
GOT TO
DO TO
GET
ELEaED
AROUND
ANVWAir?
photo by Richard Huffman
No chance Francis Lee and Mack Carter, along with Mathew Perry (not pictured) are the latest male students to lose an ASUWB election to female candidates. No male student who has run against a female student in the past two years has been elected to UW Bothell's student government.
¦ In the past two years there have been three ASUWB elections where students ran for student govemment office. In ten different races women competed against men. Women won all ten of those races.
Richiard Huttman Commons Editor
Carol Marston Commons Reporter
Late last month the results for the mid-year ASUWB representative election came in: Karmen Kam, Alysa Rees, Patty Hill, and Molly Clark were all chosen over Francis Lee, Mack Carter and Mathew Perry. All of the candidates names ap¬ peared on the ballot together and the top four vote-getters, all women, were selected. This isn't the first time that female candidates have defeated male candidates in an ASUWB race.
In fact, over the last two years male candidates h.ne never defeated female candidates. In the three student government elections since the ratifica¬ tion of the .^SUWB Constitution (which created the current student government structure) there have been ten races where at least one man ran against at least one women. The scorecard? Women won all ten of these races. Are the stu¬ dents of UW Bothell, which has a 70% female student population, making their voting decisions based purely on gender? Perhaps, but the real an¬ swer may not be so cut and dried.
Bothell students are obviously not voting ran¬ domly. Having ten women win in ten individual races is next to impossible, says Nick Maxwell, the psychologist-professor in the Liberal Studies Program."It will happen [only] about once per 1,000 sets of 10 races," says Maxwell, "so people arc probably not voting randomly."
In an ideal election, candidates are elected based on the voter's knowledge of the candidates record, background, and relative merit. These may have been the major deciding factors in each of the ten .ASL'WB races where women defeated men. But could this have happened ten times out of ten? Logic would indicate that at least once a male candidate's relative merits would have outweighed his female opponent s. But if the voters are not fully informed about each candidate's qualifica¬ tions, then it is p>ossiblc that they voters fell back on gender as a deciding factor. "It is certainly within the realm of possibility that gender had an effect," said ASLWB President Donna Zeck of the most recent election results, "1 would be fool¬ ish to say that it couldn't have had an effect."
A closer examination of the last three ASUWB elections shows that in the first two elections,
voters had many opportunities to become fully ac¬ quainted with each candidates qualifications. But in last month's election there was a decided infor¬ mation vacuum about each candidate.
UW Bothell's first official student government was put in place for the 1993-1994 school year. The government operated without a constitution, and spent much of the year formulating one. We could not track down the official results from the election that put this student government in of¬ fice. The UW Bothell Student Newsletter, published by ASUWB in the spring of 1995, indicated that there were six officers, and that four were men and two were women. We could not determine what circumstances put each candidate into office, whether they had defeated men or women, some combination thereof or ran unopposed.
That .Spring Quarter a student constitution was put up for approval by the students of UW Both¬ ell. The constitution stipulated that ASUWB would have seven elected officer positions: a president, vice-president, and treasurer, each serving one-year terms, and four student representatives, who each serve six-month terms.
On the ballot with the new constitution were nine candidates running for the elected offices that the new constitution would create. There were only four candidates who applied to run for the ASUWB representative positions, so the student government that was in place at the time decided to appoint them to the representative positions, rather than put them on the ballot unopposed.
Three candidates ran for president: Kathleen Parrish, Greg Headley, and Andrew Wahl. Parrish won. Three candidates also ran for vice president: Kevin Moe, Ken Smith, and Donna Zeck. Cur¬ rent ASUWB President 2^ck won. Three candi¬ dates, all female, ran for treasurer: Judy Harris, Melissa Meyer, and Angela Kuhlman, with Kuhl- man winning.
The mid-year ASUWB representative election the following December was cancelled because of a lack of candidates; as before, four applicants were appointed to their positions.
Last May. an almost full slate of candidates ran for the seven ASUWB offices. In three of the races there were male candidates running against female candidates. Donna Zeck defeated Aaron Chomjak for president. May Yuen defeated J. Christopher Haugen for treasurer, and Lore Christensen de¬ feated Randy Belieu for representative position Number One (Belieu ran as a write-in candidate, so his name did not actually appear on the ballot). For vice president, Jim Hidde defeated Chris Townsend; Hidde is the only current male mem¬ ber of the ASUWB governing board.
For last month's mid-year representative elec¬ tion, the ASUWB governing board decided to not
place on the ballot specific representative posi¬ tions, as it had done in the previous election. Karmen Kam, Alysa Rees, Patty Hill, and Molly Clark were the top four vote-getters, over Fran¬ cis Lee, Mack Carter and Mathew Perry. The vote was quite close, with Kam getting 157 votes. Hill getting 132, Clark getting 114, Rees getting 109, Lee barely losing with 108 votes. Carter not far behind with 106 votes, and Perry receiving 85.
It is now clear that last month's election di¬ rectly violated the ASUWB Constitution with the "top-four candidates" structure. Article II, Sec¬ tion C, Line 4 of the ASUWB Constitution reads, in part, "[Representative] Candidates shall file for one of four separate positions, and voters shall cast one vote for each position."
"We should have had specific positions that each candidate was running for," explains Mack Carter, unaware that the constitution actually requires it. If there had been specific positions each candidate were running for, rwo males could have run against each other, thus ensuring a male victory in at least one race.
But the major factor in the last election, be¬ lieve Charter and Francis Lee, was the lack of voter knowledge about each candidate's qualifications. "It seems that they [they voters] would have natu¬ rally voted for the candidates with the most ex¬ perienced backgrounds," says Carter, who served as an appointed ASUWB representative prior to the election. "But that didn't seem lo happen here."
"What was lacking," explains Lee, who also had extensive student government experience, with his work on the ASUWB, constitution com¬ mittee, "was a way of making known a candidate's experience, talent, knowledge, or lack thereof, so the student can make an informed choice."
According to Lee, past election practices em¬ ployed by the ASUWB would have helped. "It seems we don't have to reinvent the wheel here," says Lee "In previous elections ASUWB has al¬ ready utilized other creative approaches of in¬ forming the people."
In the spring 1995 election two candidates fo¬ rums were held in the the Commons, and the election was covered by ASUWB's newsletter. A four-page voter's guide was also distributed, con¬ taining position statements by all of the candi¬ dates. The second election also had rwo voter's forums, along with a four-page voter's pamphlet. The L^Bothell Commons produced its own in¬ dependent voter's guide. Both elections were marked by extensive informational campaigning, with the halls of UW Bothell covered with cam¬ paign posters.
See Male on page 2